Improvement in corn-planters



'UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

JOSEPH KLAR, OF SHELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,952, dated December 30, 1373 application filed october 25, 1873.

' specification.

This invention relates to improvements on Letters Patent granted to G. D. Haworth,

bearing date February 22, 1870; and consists, iirst, in the application of a guard or protector to the bar E in position to prevent the check-row cord and the various devices operated thereby (for actuating the valves) from being thrown out of gear or otherwise impeded in their action by reason of cornstalks or other trash or rubbish getting between or against the same in the operation of the machine; secondly, the invention relates to the application of a socket-fender, through which the checkrow cord passes, the object of which is to protect such cord from being choked when passing round the pulleys F or thrown oft' the same, and to protect the same from wear by coming in contact with the apparatus, and to the application of a horn to the bearings or supports G,

for the purpose of guiding the check-rowV cord when turning; but that my invention lmay be fully understood, I will proceed to describe the same in detail by aid of the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents a plan, Fig. 2 a front view, and Fig. 3 an end view, of a bar, E, such as described in the specification of patent before referred to with my improvements applied thereto.

a a represent my improved guard, which, by preference, is composed of wood, the front and upper portion a1 extending the whole width, or nearly so, of the bar E, and hav ing portions a2 a2 extending under the bar E, at right angles .to the part a1, the space a3 being left for the reception of the tongue and -portions of the framing, which will suffil ciently protect the working devices at that aart.

l It will thus be seen that when the machine is in operation cornstalks and other trash and substances liable to choke or impede the working devices will come against the one or other of the portions al or a2 a2, and will be driven away, thereby preventing any choking of the'same.

b b represent a pair of socket-fenders applied at either end of the machine, so that in whichever direction the machine is traveling one or other is always in position for use, such fenders being used alternately. Each fender b is pivoted, at b1, to the guard a, and is provided with a slot, b2, for the passage of a screw-bolt, for the purpose of regulating the position of the said fenders in relation to the pulleys F, and at their outer ends the fenders b are provided with a semicircu lar gutter or channel, b3, for the passage of the check-rope. rIhese channels 113,011 their front sides are bell mounted, in order that friction on the rope may be avoided as far as possible.

The portion of the fenders b in which the hole or socket for the pivot b1 and the slot b2 is formed is constructed with a fiat bearing-surface, while the portion b5 is curved, so as to allow of the free action of the pulleys F.

c d are horns or projections formed on either side of the gutters or channels b3, and projecting at right Lngles to one another in position to serve as fenders for the pulleys F, as well as guides for the rope V. G is a horn applied to each of the bearings or supports G of the pulleys F, for the purpose of guiding the rope V into the grooves of the pulleys F after the machine has been turned around, to make a return trip, instead of Walking up to the machine and placing the rope in the groove or spending time endeavoring to throw the rope in the groove of the pulley.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In corn-planters of the description re- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I referred to7 the guard a al a2, in combination have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of with the pulleys F, pvoted bearings G, and October7 1873. rope V, as speeied.

2. The pivoted support G, horn G', and JOSEPH KLAR' pulley F, in combination With the stationary Witnesses: guide b, horns c d, and channel b3, as speei- E. H. COOK7 ed. G. W. FOUKE. 

